The United States needs an integrated approach to combating foreign-backed disinformation occurring within the Homeland, says Brian Murphy, Vice President of Strategic Operations at Logically and former Acting Undersecretary for Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security. In an article on Breaking Defense last week, Murphy describes the need for a Center to Counter Foreign Malign...Read More

Vladimir Putin has been the predominant figure – and subject of much study – when it comes to information warfare during the last decade. The Russian invasion into Ukraine has trained all eyes on the role of information and disinformation in global conflict. The Kremlin, with the help of its proxies in the state-funded and...Read More

The U.S. Technology Leadership Council (USTLC) will host a virtual forum on March 22, 2022 highlighting research from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville on “Russian Propaganda/Disinformation in Select Former Soviet States: Belarus Presidential Election and Ensuing Protests in 2020.” Dr. Natalie Rice and Dr. Oleg Manaev of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville will...Read More

The Information Professionals Association hosted a virtual members-only social and live Cognitive Crucible podcast recording on March 9, 2022, bringing together about 50 IPA members and stakeholders.   Members of IPA gathered for the first time in more than two years to hear about IPA’s latest initiatives and provide feedback on issues and activities they’d like...Read More

The Information Professionals Association is excited to see that the U.S. Marine Corps announced on March 9, 2022 the creation of an Information Maneuver career field for both officer and enlisted Marines, emphasizing a focus on cultivating professionals who are skilled at operationalizing information in the security environment. The Deputy Commandant for Information directed the...Read More

IPA members are cordially invited to a virtual social and live podcast recording. On Wed, March 9, 2022 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm Eastern, there will be an IPA members only live Cognitive Crucible podcast recording, social, and Q&A with a panel of Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) experts. The first 30 minutes will include...Read More

Following the publication of two reports by Katerina Sedova, a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, CSET will hold a virtual event at 4:00 p.m. ET on February 16, 2022 titled, More than Deepfakes: AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns. The talk will feature Sedova, who studies...Read More

Information Professionals Association charter member Alan Kelly recently published in Small Wars Journal an essay titled: “Why Responding is Losing: The Plays We Run (and the Plays We Don’t) to Defeat Disinformation.” According to Kelly, president and founder of Playmaker Systems, LLC and author of The Elements of Influence: The New Essential Systems for Managing...Read More

Below is a review of the recent article in the Fall 2021 of The Cyber Defense Review titled “Information Advantage Activities.”  The Army is struggling a bit in sorting out its Information Operations (IO) career force, the organizations that have supported IO in the Army since the 1990s.  The author of this article summarizes the...Read More

The U.S. Army Cyber Institute (ARCYBER) recently issued a solicitation seeking a contractor to supply “Science Fiction Prototyping” to help the organization, the broader Department of Defense, and NATO envision operations in the environments of the future (10 years out) and generate conversation across the community about such operations. According to the Army solicitation, Science...Read More